Smoking prevalence is higher among disadvantaged groups, and disadvantaged smokers
may face higher exposure to tobacco's harms. Uptake may also be higher among those with …

Head and neck cancer (HNC) encompasses a heterogeneous group of upper aerodigestive
tract malignancies that together comprise the seventh most common cancer worldwide, 1 …

Background The efficacy and effectiveness of the quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV)
vaccine in preventing high-grade cervical lesions have been shown. However, data to …

Social indicators are an important tool for evaluating a country's level of social development
and for assessing the impact of policy. Such indicators are already in use in investigating …

The persistence of socioeconomic inequalities in health, even in the highly developed
'welfare states' of Western Europe, is one of the great disappointments of public health …

This article reviews 98 aggregate and multilevel studies examining the associations
between income inequality and health. Overall, there seems to be little support for the idea …

Studies based on databases, medical records and registers are used extensively today in
epidemiological research. Despite the increasing use, no developed methodological …

Objectives During the past decades a widening of the relative gap in death rates between
upper and lower socioeconomic groups has been reported for several European countries …

We present up to 45 years of cancer incidence data by occupational category for the Nordic
populations. The study covers the 15 million people aged 30–64 years in the 1960, 1970 …

At the start of the 21st century, all European countries are faced with substantial inequalities
in health within their populations. People with a lower level of education, a lower …